-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 12 May 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
> Incidentally, I found another message today: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To make printing work from acroread, I had to add the following line > > /Default currenthalftone /Halftone defineresource pop > > at the end of the file /usr/share/ghostscript/4.03/gs_init.ps. > > Great little patch, but I found that printing directly from .pdf files, > e.g. > > gs -sDEVICE=ljet2p -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=10 \ > -sOutputFile=<ofile> <pdf-file> > > was broke. Therefore I made made the above conditionally: > > /Default /Halftone resourcestatus { pop pop } > { /Default currenthalftone /Halftone defineresource pop } ifelse > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This seems to suggest that the problem is a bug in Acroread, and not > gs, but the gs_init.ps file is a work around. Could you correct me if I am wrong in this line of reasoning: Acroread coverts pdf files to ps files but does so in an incorrect manner and therefore (because acroread source is unavailable) gs is altered to make up for the bug in acroread and then all goes as planned. I think I am correct about this but it leaves the question: Can't you use gv to print pdf files and therefore (1) avoid altering gs for acroread's shortcomings, and (2) use all free software? Cheers, Colin. - -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at <URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM3h0dxhhzOJJktw1AQHmjAQAkLZ2pW+cYZu7cfUnp7Co8fDP1iYjebl4 5XTvXdrjKT1E6PgtXBQ7mzRsN1vnbGfqVzhJ6FNybc7BIscUHi5WiqFSMG2gKt8C Er8lctuMJvpf1eojPr3ACH3YLs3ipdi0LkZUaM/7AuOiTvQ10BrWSLi3vcQzDScj M26AxA/Q8Vw= =9dKC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .